Columbia Professor Slaughter: Protests Escalated Because of 'Gross Mismanagement'

Columbia Professor Slaughter: Protests Escalated Because of ‘Gross Mismanagement’


Columbia University Professor Joseph Slaughter said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Chris Jansing Reports” that the school’s administration’s “gross mismanagement” caused the New York Police Department to have to clear the encampment and arrest the protestors.

Slaughter said, “Faculty near me, students near me were crying in despair over the fact that the administration has escalated to the point where they’re bringing in an assault team to shut down student protest. I can understand that the building occupation is a different matter than a completely peaceful, nonviolent encampment that had existed on the campus for the last ten days or so.:”

He continued, “The fact that the building can be occupied is partly, is due partly to the gross mismanagement of this administration. It has escalated consistently for

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